While Arch Linux is running flawlessly on this Laptop there are a few things you have to configure manually. This article will aid you in configuring your system and will provide additionally hints to make your ThinkPad X200 experience even better.

Setup

Wireless

The ThinkPad X200 has a Intel PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN wireless adapter included. In order to make it work you have to install the iwlwifi-5000-ucode package from the core repository to get the firmware.

# pacman -Sy iwlwifi-5000-ucode

From there you can choose whatever network configuration programs you want to use. If you don't already know which network manager you want to use, we highly recommend netcfg.

Graphics

The graphics card is supported by the xf86-video-intel driver package from the extra repository. The Xorg server makes use of this automatically. There's no need for a Xorg configuration file.

# pacman -Sy xf86-video-intel

However, with the newest available driver version it seems as if a regression has been introduced resulting in poor 3D performance. You will experience Xorg running fine, but 3D applications will have a very low frame rate.

Audio

Audio is supported out of the box after installing the necessary alsa packages from the core repository.